Chestnut oak trees are generally not the best timber trees because they are usually branched low and not very straight, but when they grow in better conditions, they are valuable for timber, which is marketed as ' mixed white oak '.

Chestnut ( Castanea ), some species called chinkapin or chinquapin, is a genus of eight or nine species of deciduous trees and shrubs in the beech family Fagaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

Chestnut trees particularly flourish in the Mediterranean basin.

* Chestnut blight fungus ( Cryphonectria parasitica ) ( formerly Endothia parasitica ) affects chestnut trees.

The Canadian Chestnut Council is an organization attempting to reintroduce the trees in Canada, primarily in Ontario.

Surviving chestnut trees are being bred for resistance to the blight, notably by The American Chestnut Foundation, which aims to reintroduce a blight-resistant American chestnut to its original forest range within the early decades of the 21st century.

To put its damage in perspective, the number of chestnuts killed by the Chestnut Blight was around 3. 5 billion chestnut trees while there are 3. 5 billion ash trees in Ohio alone.

Adair County also has one of the few remaining American Chestnut trees in America.

The original streets running north-south were named for trees, such as Ash, Cedar, Cherry, and Chestnut.

In addition to orange groves, several olive orchards were also once in the area, and some original trees can still be found along Chestnut, Orangevale, Main, and Walnut Avenue.

Chestnut trees lined the old road between the fields.

Chestnut trees in early AutumnThe Park has long been popular with locals, but also attracts those from further afield.

From the mid-Nineteenth Century until World War II Londoners came here to celebrate Chestnut Sunday here and to see the abundant blooming of the trees along Chestnut Avenue ; the tradition resumed in 1993.

Mature trees include Turkey, English Elm, Common Oak, Sessile Oak, Rowan, Silver Birch, Common Lime and Horse Chestnut.

The forests are mainly Chestnut oak, Table Mountain Pine and Pitch Pine trees.

The hills are directly across a fertile plain from the ancient city of Philippi, they are located between the Strymon and the Xiropotamos rivers and are covered in Oriental plane and Chestnut trees.

The native trees are mostly deciduous, the most common being Chestnut, which provided an important food for the region until World War II.

The area around the summit is mainly Heathland, with Birch, Oak and Sweet Chestnut trees in the woods at the northern end.

It contains a Home Demonstration Garden, Vegetable Garden, Herb Garden, Home Fruit and Nuts Garden ( including Black, Persian and Japanese Walnuts, Pecan, Shellbark and Shagbark Hickory, Chinese Chestnut as well as dwarf apple cultivars, an American Persimmon and native Pawpaw trees ), the All America Selection Trials Garden, Perennial Collection, Ground Cover Demonstration, Woody Plant Collection, and a " Walk Across Kentucky " that simulates Kentucky's seven regional landscapes: Bluegrass, Knobs, Appalachian Plateaus, Cumberland Mountains, Mississippian Plateaus and Outer Nashville Basin ( Pennyroyal ), Shawnee Hills, Mississippi Embayment and Alluvial Basin ( Jackson Purchase ).

This produces a mild climate in which Sweet Chestnut trees thrive, and as a result of which Gersau is known in the region as the Riviera of Lake Lucerne.

The Chavez Ravine Arboretum, in Elysian Park, just north of Dodger Stadium, at 929 Academy Road, Los Angeles, California, USA contains more than 1, 000 varieties of trees from around the world, including what are believed to be the oldest and largest Cape Chestnut, Kauri, and Tipu trees in the United States.

In between these extremes are found the Japanese chestnut ( Castanea crenata ) at average ; followed by the Chinese Chestnut ( Castanea mollissima ) at about, then the European chestnut ( Castanea sativa ) around.

This is because it and its associates ( the American Chestnut Cooperators ' Foundation and many others from education, research and industry sectors contributing to the program ) are at the last stages of developing a variety that is as close as possible to the lost American chestnut, while having incorporated the blight-resistant gene of the Asiatic species.

The blight-resistant Chinese Chestnut is now the most commonly planted chestnut species in the U. S. It can be distinguished from the American chestnut by its hairy twig tips which are in contrast to the hairless twigs of the American chestnut.

Other minor named locations in the town are Babcock Hill, Bush Hill, Chestnut Hill, Cook Hill, Coreyville, Kick Hill, Mason Hill, Scott Hill, Standish Hill, and Village Hill.

The mill workers ' houses are located along Walnut and Chestnut streets just east of the mill site, while the supervisor's houses and the company store are located further east ( and further up in elevation ).

The original streets are still present and retain the names of Walnut, Elm, Chestnut, Pine, Cherry, and Oak.

BMW's North American headquarters are located on Chestnut Ridge Road, and is built, and currently being expanded on land once owned by the Tice family.

Some of the early settlers to the area were the Collins family of Chestnut Ridge Farm, for whom Chestnut Ridge Middle School is named after ; the Turner family, for whom Turnersville was named ; the Hurff family, for whom the census designation Hurffville and Hurffville Elementary School are named ; the Heritage family, whose family began the Heritage's Dairy Farm Stores, and for whom the community Heritage Valley is named ; the Morgan family, who were the first residents of the Olde Stone House, a landmark for residents of the Township ; and the Bell Family, who arrived in 1899, turning the 139-year-old grist mill into General Mills, and for whom Bells Lake Park and Bells Elementary School are named.

Some major complexes are throughout the Loganberry section of Richmond Heights ( between Brush Road and Chestnut Lane on Chardon Road, or Route 6 ).

There are also ball fields at the waterworks facility on Chestnut Street.

Also listed are the Chestnut Ridge and Schellsburg Union Church and Cemetery and Bonnet's Tavern.

Chestnut Street and Kings Highway are north-to-south routes, as are Vera Cruz Road and Powder Valley Road.

In addition, the area has a significant population of racially mixed ( though often light-skinned and blue-eyed ) people, known locally as ' the Chestnut Ridge people ', whose specific origins are uncertain.

* There are public parks at Barkham Road Recreation Ground, Langborough Recreation Ground, Cantley Park, Chestnut Park, Elizabeth Road Recreation Ground, Elms Field, Riverside Walk and Waverley Park.

Another is The American Chestnut Foundation, which is backcrossing blight-resistant American chestnut X Chinese chestnut hybrids to American parents, to recover the American growth characteristics and genetic makeup, and then finally intercrossing the advanced generations to breed consistently for blight resistance.

A few of the original college buildings on Harrison Avenue still stand, though BC moved from the South End to then-rural Chestnut Hill as a result of rapid growth and urbanization in the late nineteenth century.

The mission of Chestnut Hill College is to provide students with holistic education in an inclusive Catholic community marked by academic excellence, shared responsibility, personal and professional growth, service to one another and to the global community, and concern for the earth.

Circulation growth led the firm to outgrow its facilities, and in 1866 Childs bought property at Sixth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia and constructed the Public Ledger Building, which was called at the time "... the finest newspaper office in the country.

Mail orders for the season and orders for single tickets at $2, may be addressed to the society, 1044 Chestnut Street, San Francisco 9.

* Chestnut flour is popular in Corsica, the Périgord and Lunigiana for breads, cakes and pastas.

Chestnut bread keeps fresh for as long as two weeks.

On June 2, 2007, Joey Chestnut broke Kobayashi's record with 59. 5 hot dogs and buns in a qualifying round for the annual Nathan's contest.

The name Castanea is probably derived from the old name for the Sweet Chestnut, either in Latin or in Ancient Greek.

Chestnut bread can stay fresh for as long as two weeks.

Chestnut wood is a useful source of natural tannin and was used for tanning leather before the introduction of synthetic tannins.

American President Teddy Roosevelt purchased Chestnut canoes for a South American expedition.

In the election, some voters chose a site near the center of the county, but a larger number voted for several different named sites ( which may have been different names for the settlement known as " Skinned Chestnut " or " Skin ( t ) Chestnut "— the early name of Douglasville ).

It is home to the University of Missouri Centre for Agroforestry, which holds an annual Chestnut roast in the area.

South Orange was called the Chestnut Hills for a time.